KELLER- SELF CONFIDENCE

Using this extract as a starting point, and with reference to other parts of the play, discuss how Miller uses Keller’s self-confidence to explore the idea of characters denying the truth.

• confidence allows neighbours to deny truth , greek chorus

• allows himself to deny the truth

• allows kate to deny the truth , to an extent

In his domestic realist tragedy [“of the common man”] Miller demonstrates how Keller’s hubris manipulates those around him into denying the truth. This is evident